ABOUT
Dear Sir, is a quarterly online journal created from the want to present innovative, unconventional, or emerging voices in literature. It is based around the concept of quality over quantity, and will therefore only feature a clutch of writers in each issue whose work in some way, and somehow, surprises.

Dear Sir, follows an intentionally minimalist layout, where the frame of the page defers to the writing within (where site is retina then writing = iris and page the sclera).

The idea for Dear Sir, came about while reading Ulysses: if magazines like The Little Review and the Egoist never took a chance on serializing Joyce's work in 1918, we may never have had it in 1922.

Starting with issue 7 (summer 2011) and going until issue 10, Dear Sir, will join forces with the Vienna Poetry School, sharing its goal of pursuing new media explorations in contemporary poetry. We are proud to be associated with their avant-garde practices in the training of creative writing, past instructors having included Anne Waldman, Nick Cave, Allen Ginsberg, Sainkho Namtchylak, Blixa Bargeld, and Christian Ide Hintze, also the school's head and co-founder.

SUBMIT
Dear Sir, wants to take chances. Is playful. Will play.

Send short or long poems in English, German or French, submit narratives, fragments, notations of sound poems, marginalia, experiments and manifestos, send traditional forms revamped, dialogues, monologues, and monosyllables. Dear Sir, leans towards the poetic, the speculative, and the cross-genre.

A note on translations: creativity and poetic license are strongly encouraged in your translations—think metonymy over copy. If you have something already translated, do send, as long as the writer translated from is an emerging one (i.e. not established) or that your translation of an established writer is somehow whacky.

A note on collaborations: bien sûr, unbedingt, yes.

Of note: Dear Sir, also goes by Sandra Huber.

All submissions should be sent to sir [at] dearsir [dot] org either in the body of an email or as ONE .doc/.pdf attachment (yourname_daymonthyear_genre.doc, eg. williamcarloswilliams_12081917_poetry.doc ) with a brief note about yourwonderfulself.

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